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I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

Man, this has not been my experience at all.

My gameplay loop has been walking around exploring the city, periodically spotting rare pokemon on my radar and hunting them down/asking other nearby players if they've seen those pokemon, trading info about the location of nearby rares. Also, running into some rare high level catches, strategically leveling pokemon based on movesets/selecting which ones to feed candies, then forming coalitions with friends on the same team to go take and secure gyms nearby. Also, learning good lure locations where they can overlap and regularly visiting those spots, either to check if someone has set a lure there or to set lures myself in hopes that other people will join and keep adding lures.

I already have a number of "rivals" in my area who regularly steal gyms from me who I know by username (a couple I even can put a face to a username already), who drive me to go out and try to catch more in order to keep pace with their high-level pokemon.

When a rare pokemon spawns, you have only a short window to catch it, correct? Like, it spawns, someone catches it, and from that moment you only have about 30 seconds to start a battle with it and catch it too before it vanishes from the map?

Boston has like, way too many Pokemon Go players, so you essentially never find anything good ever. I wouldn't know anything about the owning a gym because all the gyms have installed 1700+ CP pokemon which are way out of my reach even playing the type game. I'd have to walk around forever with the game open to hatch eggs to get anything good, which would be fine if the game didn't drain 30-40% of your battery per hour and require constant attention to restart and reconnect. I just think my experience with it was so unbelievably lousy that I couldn't justify spending another minute with it. It's interesting that your experience is so different.

No, if a pokemon spawns somewhere the window for finding it is very generous. I think it's well over ten minutes, unless there's a lure in place at a stop because I'm pretty sure lures replace the old pokemon when they spawn a new one every five minutes.

The app is more stable now, so it's a lot more fun in that respect. I also had a lot of fun (besides the heat) wandering around downtown on a dedicated journey, since (for me) it was a way to catch like twenty pokemon I hadn't seen before in my suburb.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

Man, this has not been my experience at all.

My gameplay loop has been walking around exploring the city, periodically spotting rare pokemon on my radar and hunting them down/asking other nearby players if they've seen those pokemon, trading info about the location of nearby rares. Also, running into some rare high level catches, strategically leveling pokemon based on movesets/selecting which ones to feed candies, then forming coalitions with friends on the same team to go take and secure gyms nearby. Also, learning good lure locations where they can overlap and regularly visiting those spots, either to check if someone has set a lure there or to set lures myself in hopes that other people will join and keep adding lures.

I already have a number of "rivals" in my area who regularly steal gyms from me who I know by username (a couple I even can put a face to a username already), who drive me to go out and try to catch more in order to keep pace with their high-level pokemon.

When a rare pokemon spawns, you have only a short window to catch it, correct? Like, it spawns, someone catches it, and from that moment you only have about 30 seconds to start a battle with it and catch it too before it vanishes from the map?

Boston has like, way too many Pokemon Go players, so you essentially never find anything good ever. I wouldn't know anything about the owning a gym because all the gyms have installed 1700+ CP pokemon which are way out of my reach even playing the type game. I'd have to walk around forever with the game open to hatch eggs to get anything good, which would be fine if the game didn't drain 30-40% of your battery per hour and require constant attention to restart and reconnect. I just think my experience with it was so unbelievably lousy that I couldn't justify spending another minute with it. It's interesting that your experience is so different.

No, it's the other way around: Pokemon who spawn stay there for about 10-30 minutes regardless of how many people catch it. Also, it's not confirmed, but there's speculation that more Pokemon tend to spawn in areas where there's more mobile data usage.

Also, while I agree it's tough to deal with gyms that have 1700+ CP pokemon sitting on them, if the gym is held by an opposing team you (1) get to use a team of six pokemon to fight no matter what level the gym is and (2) you get to fight at the same time with other people on your team, meaning even if you're way out-leveled by a pokemon sitting on a gym you can work together with others to take it down.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

Man, this has not been my experience at all.

My gameplay loop has been walking around exploring the city, periodically spotting rare pokemon on my radar and hunting them down/asking other nearby players if they've seen those pokemon, trading info about the location of nearby rares. Also, running into some rare high level catches, strategically leveling pokemon based on movesets/selecting which ones to feed candies, then forming coalitions with friends on the same team to go take and secure gyms nearby. Also, learning good lure locations where they can overlap and regularly visiting those spots, either to check if someone has set a lure there or to set lures myself in hopes that other people will join and keep adding lures.

I already have a number of "rivals" in my area who regularly steal gyms from me who I know by username (a couple I even can put a face to a username already), who drive me to go out and try to catch more in order to keep pace with their high-level pokemon.

When a rare pokemon spawns, you have only a short window to catch it, correct? Like, it spawns, someone catches it, and from that moment you only have about 30 seconds to start a battle with it and catch it too before it vanishes from the map?

Boston has like, way too many Pokemon Go players, so you essentially never find anything good ever. I wouldn't know anything about the owning a gym because all the gyms have installed 1700+ CP pokemon which are way out of my reach even playing the type game. I'd have to walk around forever with the game open to hatch eggs to get anything good, which would be fine if the game didn't drain 30-40% of your battery per hour and require constant attention to restart and reconnect. I just think my experience with it was so unbelievably lousy that I couldn't justify spending another minute with it. It's interesting that your experience is so different.

No, it's the other way around: Pokemon who spawn stay there for about 10-30 minutes regardless of how many people catch it. Also, it's not confirmed, but there's speculation that more Pokemon tend to spawn in areas where there's more mobile data usage.

Also, while I agree it's tough to deal with gyms that have 1700+ CP pokemon sitting on them, if the gym is held by an opposing team you (1) get to use a team of six pokemon to fight no matter what level the gym is and (2) you get to fight at the same time with other people on your team, meaning even if you're way out-leveled by a pokemon sitting on a gym you can work together with others to take it down.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

Right now the pokemon radar is like totally broken, though, which is putting a massive damper on the entire game for me. It keeps showing nearby pokemon as three "steps" away, and pokemon that aren't in range anymore keep staying on the radar.

Right now the pokemon radar is like totally broken, though, which is putting a massive damper on the entire game for me. It keeps showing nearby pokemon as three "steps" away, and pokemon that aren't in range anymore keep staying on the radar.

Hopefully they get this fixed soon.

Somebody noticed that the "location caught" has changed from ~the block you caught it to ~the entire city. People are theorizing that change also changed the "nearby" radar, since the location caught circle seemed to line up roughly with 3 steps before.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

I love how much you hate Pokemon and yet continue to play it, DK. I know that you must do it with such a self aware self loathing that it must feed some dark humiliation fetish.

I don't play it though! I open it from time to time to look at how much of a trainwreck it continues to be, but I am totally off it. My man however, continues to be obsessed with it, much to my confusion.

yeah i don't get it it seems kinda crap to me but

i only tried it the day it launched so it was constantly shitting the bed

plus i live in the middle of nowhere wheres there's literally nothing

Even in a populated urban area with tons of stops, the gameplay loop is basically:

Walk to pokestop. Spin. Get all the items.
Pokemon spawns in near you. Tap on it.
There isn't a battle, throw balls directly at it.
After about 3 balls, you've caught it
Feed it to your existing Pokemon to level them up excruciatingly slowly, like all those shitty free to play card games
Repeat

Eventually you can try to battle/train at a gym, but there is no purpose whatsoever to doing this. Your Pokemon don't get stronger and you don't really win anything. The gym battle isn't even fun while you're doing it.

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

If the photo was just labeled Hong Kong apartments, would that be as bad (ie is it the concept of the squalor or the concept of the density that is upsetting? Cause the former, sure, but the latter, no way, that's awesome.)